New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-25
GLORlING IN PSI UPSILON.
THE FRATERNITY AT THE OPERA HOUSE.
EX-PREsIDENT WHITE AND MIR. DEPEw SPEAK
POEM BY ISAAC n. FORD.

Ex-PREsIDENT WHITE AND MR. DEPEw SPEAK
POEM BY ISAAC n. FORD
The songs of Psi Epsilon and the eloquenec Of Psi
Epsilon orators filed the Metropolitan Opera
House last evening. The hftyfourth general
conventions of the fraternity, held with the Delta
Chapter of the University of the City of NewYork, fur
nshed the OCCASION and the members of the old frater
nifty with their friends supplied the audience
BY $50 o'clock the auditorium and the many-tiered
horseshoe of boxes bright with costumes of Psi
Upsion sisters cousins, while the orchestra made
sic within and the undergraduate members made music
without There delegates present from all Of the
eighteen chapters in the fraternity aud the total Of under
graduates and alumni was not far from 800 They were
narshalled by chapters the lobby and while awaiting
the march down the centre aisle and the gar
and gold pathway to the stage one delega-
ton after another let of its own particular
and peculiar cheer The modernized and complicated
" Hoo-rayrah Hoo rah Rah-rah-rah Eta :! OF the
youngest chapter from Lehigh University, contrascu
with the simple and ancient cheer VI
the mother chapter, the Theta. Of Union Col
lege, while the sharp Rah-rah hahrah
Kapna :" of the Bowdoin punctuated the
general roar of explosive monosyabe Wlen the oruer
to march came, the solid column, in fuH uress' hoNco
down the AISLE headed by the orators OF the evening anu
took seats on stage. Among those who composed IL
were men from Yale Harvard Brown. Columbia, New
York University, Lehigh, Michigan University. Wesleyan
University Amherst, Bowdon, Dartmouth, Hamilton.
Cornell, University OF Chicago Kenyon, SYRIA
cuse University. Union College and the Uni
yersity of Rochester. At the front
j. c. stedman Daniel II. Chamberlain. william L. Robin
son and Chauucey Depew, the Yale chapter; Prest
dent Charles Kendall Adams of the Michigan University
chapter; Asa W. Tenney, of the Dartmouth chapter;
Hooper c. Van Worst aud Ward Mclean, of the Union
College chapter; Austin Abbott. of the New-York Uni
vcrsty chapter Isaac Ford OF the Brown University
chapter Charles H. Parkhurst d. d., of the Amhurst
chapter Robert Macarthur OF the Rochester chapter
the Rev. Dr. George r. Van DeWater of the Lehigh Uni
versy Chapter Charles Dudley Warner of the Haini-
ton College Chapter; Professor Charles Carroll of the
Harvard Chapter; Charles r. Bacon OF the Cornell Chap
ter; Judge David l. Northrop of the Midleiown Chap
ter and John Crosby Brown, of the Columbia Chapter
After the opening song by the fraternity President
Charles Kendall Adams ID Cornell. introduced the Rev.
President Adams then spoke few words OF welcome To
the friends OF the fraternity and called upon 1. the
witty little speech in place of the Grafton expected from
DR. George B. Lorng Of Washington who s, was detained
shouts OF laughter and when he had finished
Ms Written soI for the OCCASION by Lawrence B. Ohm
stead of the Psi Chapter at Hamilton College.
OF the succeeding had died away, President An,
drew D. White. of Cornell was introduced and received
the Influences fraternity life and teachings on the col
lege and world One by one he took up the objections
urged against the system and from the wealth OF his uni
yersty experience in this country aud Europe answered
AT the Close Of President Whites speech chairman
referred 10 certain unknown cross-country railroad
introduced its manager and the fraernitys agent in
charge. Chauncey ". Depew. Dir. Depew SAID among
other things:
BROTHERS or THE LADIES: The last time
TINS house was TO bear the German Opera Five
and ne orchestra chairs on the @Es There wa;
PSI Epsilon ali things After the classical ostion
fraternity. and before the poe well turned ana mus cal
NECESSARY an the dinner have just left Fra
ternty selfish iso alton In tuness
ART It hardly possible in our ey,ii3aton for
friendships formed that never
die Between the walls of the chapter house these Trend
ships thrive There the modest sensitive MINI unos S
batting society the classroom and the ball hed meet ana
Escrecy pow,r II you knew secrets would know
much do aud wouldn't be here telling you these
mysteries preserving Of the rares truths TO
Inoern All good things in love- politics and life
We come here 10 welcome the Psi Epsilon students.
makes science Professions in statesmanshp
while the rush and the OF the great money world
saregaars 3 R tg In Se i PSI WpSn Republics
shape destnie OF the greater whose future an
hopes are hung tApplause.l
poem written by Isaac N Ford, OF the Brown nlver-
gty Chapter, next read by the Rev George X van
De Water d. d. rector OF St Lukes Protestant Episcopal
vert listened with the closest attention and received
the warmest applause. On the sixth page OF todays
TRIBUNE will be found so much OF the poem as the press
uro of important would allow room Tor
After the intellectual treat was ended with another
rousing chorus the orchestra moved its base OF opera
the boxes came dance Psi Epsilon wazes with
the brave composing the solid phaanX on the Stage
and In the auditorium The patronesses OF the reception
were Mrs Hooper c. Van Worst. Mrs George Hunter
Brown, Mrs Joel Francis Freeman, Mrs Edgar :.
Auchincloss. Mrs. Dwight H. Olmstead: Mrs robert
feDox Belknap, Mrs J. E. Read. Mrs b. W. Horton Mrs
Henry Day Miss Emily O. Butler. Mrs Henry steers,
Mrs +. L. Lake. Mrs Austin Abbott and Mrs Willard